265 in wall build - Brubakron's Reef

Here are some pictures with my new additions: Overall everything is doing well and I haven't noticed any aggression. However, the Kole Yellow Eye has spine or bone coming out of its body on both sides today. It is swimming and eating fine, but I am not sure what happened. I couldn't get any great pictures of the area, but any input would be great.

Gold Spot Rabbitfish


Kole Yellow Eye


You can kind of see the spine or bone by the tail



Stunner Chalice, zoas, and other coral





And then the additional admirers of the tank:



 
I really like the countertop! Look into Panduit cable routing products. I used them in my build and so far so good!
 
The "spine" you see at the base of the tail is the Kole tang's scalpel. They're called surgeon fish because they, like most tangs, have a scalpel-like bone/blade at the base of the tail for defense.
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ChiveCK said:
The "spine" you see at the base of the tail is the Kole tang's scalpel. They're called surgeon fish because they, like most tangs, have a scalpel-like bone/blade at the base of the tail for defense.
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That is exactly what it would be - I have never seen this before. So the tang has had the scalpel out for about 5 days now. Is this normal? I have not observed any other fish being aggressive towards the tang, and it seems happy swimming all over the tank. Could it be a way that it is trying to gain dominance in the tank? Thanks for the input.
 
brubakron said:
That is exactly what it would be - I have never seen this before. So the tang has had the scalpel out for about 5 days now. Is this normal? I have not observed any other fish being aggressive towards the tang, and it seems happy swimming all over the tank. Could it be a way that it is trying to gain dominance in the tank? Thanks for the input.
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Normal in my experience. You just probably didn't notice it before due to lighting or whatever. If he's not flicking it at other tank mates I wouldn't worry. But it can't hurt to ask around, I am by no means a tang expert.
 
Now for my next fish order - This is still in the "may do this" stage, but I am close to ordering

1 -Sleeper banded goby
1-Chinstrap jawfish
1-Red stripe tilefish
8- Bartlett's Anthias - I have got input about these and have heard they do better in large groups - with their bright colors I think a large group would look awesome.

As always any input is welcome.
 
I am excited about two new additions - a pair of Flashing Tilefish. I have read up on them, and know they can be hard to keep but I feel good about this pair. They were at a lfs for over a week so I shouldn't have to worry about decompression issues. They were out in the open, and both ate frozen at the store. In addition they were a great price. They are already eating in the QT tank, and have gotten along with the yellow tilefish (much larger than both of them) and sleeper banded goby in the QT tank. One of them is bolder at the moment, but it is still the first day. I am not sure if they are a bonded pair (or if tilefish have bonded pairs but they get along with each other well) To add to the terrible pics in this thread here are a few more - the best I could get at the moment.



 
Great addition. I like tilefish a lot. They do eat a lot but they are out 97% of the time if there are 2 or more of them IME.
 
Time for an update - I picked up some great coral pieces at the local gathering recently. Here is a video of my tank during feeding time - it gets kind of close up and jumps a bit, but you will get the idea. The phosphates are a little bit higher than I want them to be so there is a little bit of gha growing in a few places. The tangs are keeping it in check, and the rocks that I used lanthanum chloride with has not had any signs of gha. In addition everything is doing well except for a pectinia coral - it has been slowly receding for the past month. I t has some gha growing on the top (which is not a good sign). Can I give a pectinia coral a hydrogen peroxide bath (1 part peroxide and 3 parts water) with hurting the coral? I may move it into my biocube to see if it will do any better. Thanks for any input.

http://youtu.be/-2FjLBxyxy4
 
Found a nice surprise today while doing maintenance on my tank. The first fish into the tank were 2 barred gobies and 2 blue gudgeons. Well - I was down to one blue gudgeon - I found one barred goby that had jumped out of the tank, but the other one and one blue gudgeon were never seen again. I had thought maybe they got caught by something in the tank and that led to their demise with no evidence left. While cleaning my sump today I came across the other barred goby! When it leapt out of the tank it landed in the sump, and has been in there for several months. I finally caught it, and it is back in the dt
now, which also has tops on it so it shouldn't be able to escape again.
 
A video of the DT with blue LEDs only (I run them for the last hour each night). Video is a little jumpy, but this shows the movement of many of the corals really well. Also you can see the different colored tips on the anemones which are almost not noticeable in the daytime light.

http://youtu.be/AI_l37Z9kGs
 
It has been awhile since I have updated the thread. Everything is still going well with the exception of higher than desirable phosphates. I am putting in the time now to get them down, and believe that I will have the phosphate level in check soon. Other than that I recently seeded the tank with pods from getyourpods.com I am planning on getting a mandarin soon, so I want the pod population up in the system.


Other than that I bought a back up generator with the possibility of sever weather - so I am covered in the case that the power goes out. I am sure though now that I am prepared I won't have any power outages. Here are few pictures (I was playing around with the settings on the camera, so a few pictures may have a little color that looks off)

New addition - a blue sided wrasse






 
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